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Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.

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Main Author: Hill, Laban Carrick
Other Authors: Collier, Bryan (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Dave, > fl. 1834-1864 > Juvenile nonfiction.
African American potters > Biography > Juvenile.
African American poets > Biography > Juvenile.
Slaves > South Carolina > Biography > Juvenile.
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Summary:Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780316107310
031610731X
Author Notes:Laban Carrick Hill is the author of more than thirty books, including the 2004 National Book Award Finalist Harlem Stomp! , a book he researched for nearly a decade, and America Dreaming , which examines the legacy of the 1960s. He has taught writing at Columbia University, Baruch College, and St. Michael's College and is currently teaching at the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College in Massachusetts. He is also the cofounder and codirector of the Writers Project of Ghana, based in the US and Ghana.

Bryan Collier has illustrated more than twenty-five picture books, including the award-winning Trombone Shorty , Dave the Potter , and Knock Knock: My Father's Dream for Me , as well as City Shapes , and Fifty Cents and a Dream , and has received four Caldecott Honors and six Coretta Scott King Awards. He lives with his wife and children in Marlboro, New York.

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